On 20 April 2012, the Zamel family living in the village of Ein El-Hilweh in the Jordan Valley were forcibly removed from their home. The family were forced to dismantle their own tents, despite no official demolishing order presented to them by the Israeli army.

Ein El-Hilweh, as is over 90 percent of the Jordan Valley, is located in Area C which means that the area is under full military and civil control by the Israeli occupation authority. To enter or leave this area from and to the West Bank one has to pass through one of the four Israeli checkpoints in the Jordan Valley.

In the past month, reports of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank have increased dramatically, as settlers prepare for the PLO’s request for recognition of a Palestinian state in the United Nations.

In July, settler violence in Al Baqa’a, a village in the Ramallah governorate, caused a whole community to leave and resettle elsewhere.

“We are running out of time” — Water in the West Bank is scarce for Palestinians

Summer means water shortages for Palestinians. With global warming and a population increase in the West Bank and Gaza, water scarcity becomes even more critical. Experts—both Palestinians and Israelis—address the water problem as urgent, but few can see solutions ahead.

Europe's highest court ruled on Thursday
that Israeli products manufactured in settlements in occupied Palestinian
territories are not exempt from paying EU customs duties. Though nominally
a finding on a trade-related matter, the decision has much wider political
implications.

It would seem like little more than a
minor customs dispute involving a mere EUR19,155.46 ($25,834.97).

The village of Battir, North West of
Bethlehem, was once a haven for farmers. Its rich soil, water resources
and favourable climate produced abundant harvests of olives and vegetables.
But since the start of the occupation, Battir's 4,000 inhabitants have
faced tremendous difficulties.

The village straddles B and C areas,
falling under administrative and military Israeli control. It is surrounded
on one side by the separation wall and on the other by two settlements,
Bitay Illet and Walja.

End of December, accompanied by soldiers,
Israeli settlers driving bulldozers started carrying out significant construction
works in the area where is located the Neweitef Al - Majur spring, central
source of water for farming the land of the nearby West Bank town of Qarawat
Bani Hassan, in the Salfeet governorate, 30 km southwest of Nablus.

Moeen Rayyan, Media Coordinator of the
PGFTU (Palestine General Federation of Trade Union) works in Nablus, but
he was born in Qarawat Bani Hassan and frequently returns to his native
town to visit his family.

Around twenty residents of Nabi Salah village
were injured during Friday's demonstration, directed mainly at the Hallamish
settlement which occupies the village's farmland and primary water source.
Most of those injured were children not participating in the protest, tear
gassed and fired upon with rubber bullets as they sheltered in a nearby
house.

Although yesterday was only the fourth
protest of its kind, Nabi Salah has fast become a hub of the popular struggle,
adopting the non-violent principles of its sister movements in Bilin and
Ni'lin.

Israeli Border Police assaulted ten Palestinian
labourers in the early hours of Sunday morning. The men were seized on
the Palestinian side of the Al-Zaiem crossing, attempting to reach the
construction site they work at in East Jerusalem.

The men, from Al-Khadr village south
of Bethlehem, did not possess working permits for Jerusalem. They were
captured on the Palestinian side of the fence and severely beaten with
sticks and rifles.

Rani Saleh, 26, speaking through his
father Hussein, said "about ten Israeli border police attacked us
suddenly, without warning.

Shaare Zedek Medical Centre is in a suburb
of Jerusalem and one of three Israeli hospitals where Palestinians are
permitted to go for treatment. The lobby is filled with a presentation
on the history of Israeli medicine, the cafes full of visitors and patients.
On the fifth floor in a small waiting room in the pediatric dialysis department
sit seven Palestinian families.

and launches the department "Yasser
kashlak" to document violations of Israeli settlers

Information Central

The attacks by the Israeli settlers against
Palestinian citizens has Increased recently in the West Bank and occupied
Jerusalem, and it is not the last, the trample process by a settler drove
his car towards one of the Palestinian citizens in front of cameras and
before the eyes of the occupation forces and it has been posted on all
visual media, including the so-called Israel television.

The attempt of settlers to do terrorist
and continuous attacks through …

This was the ominous warning issued yesterday
by Rabbi Arik Asherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights who believes
that "if nothing changes, Jerusalem will burn." His remarks come
in response to a court decision on Monday permitting Israeli settlers to
take possession of another Palestinian home in the East Jerusalem region
of Sheikh Jarrah.

The olive harvest has become synonymous
with settler violence. The 2008 harvest saw a record high for attacks on
Palestinian farmers and their land, capping a succession of increases.
Violence on that scale has not materialised this harvest, which has instead
been defined by its use as a political football. Propaganda from parties
on both sides of the wall has distorted the facts on the ground. Such tactics
do worse than cheapen the suffering of victims.

The German journalist Christoph Schult
views the practise of administrative detention adopted by Israel in the
occupied territories.

Hundreds of Palestinians are kept behind
bars in Israel without charges having been filed and with no access to
a fair trial. Not even their lawyers are allowed to look at the evidence.
Some governments in the West have expressed their concern, but the Israelis
haven't budged.

The cell is only a few square meters
in size and there are no windows.

Farming in the villages around Nablus has
become a perilous task of late. Each year vandals from nearby Israeli settlements
plague the olive farmers, destroying their trees and attacking workers.
In the village of Burin, we saw evidence of a more sinister trend.

Issam Shedahah, 39, is a long time resident
of Burin and it has cost him dear. We are looking at the burnt out husk
of his car, torched the previous night by the settlers of Itzhar. "This
is the fourth time they have burnt my car", he tells us, "now
it is very common that they come into the village at night".

Finally, after more than two years of bitter
division, leaders of the two rival factions in Palestine are talking positively
about the prospects for national unity, without which the Palestinian Cause
is lost.